ACPS now closed for the entire thanksgiving week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

Schools were closed and aren’t educating. Blame the unions, their Democrat lackeys, and abusive families like yours that perpetuate this failure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

Schools were closed and aren’t educating. Blame the unions, their Democrat lackeys, and abusive families like yours that perpetuate this failure.

What do you know about my family? The truth hurts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

Schools were closed and aren’t educating. Blame the unions, their Democrat lackeys, and abusive families like yours that perpetuate this failure.

What do you know about my family? The truth hurts.

That apparently you send your children to public schools that were closed for a year, which is your choice, but are bitter and upset that other people also made a choice to not tolerate this bull****.

That also includes the Superintendent. Maybe you should be mad at him. He took his daughter out of ACPS to attend in person private, and had more to say on school renaming than reopening them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

Uhhhh that’s exactly the point. The hospital gave him the week off because they had the staff to stay open. Had the hospital closed completely and kicked out all of the covid patients because all of the ICU nurses “needed” a week at the beach at the same time, I bet you’d feel differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

Uhhhh that’s exactly the point. The hospital gave him the week off because they had the staff to stay open. Had the hospital closed completely and kicked out all of the covid patients because all of the ICU nurses “needed” a week at the beach at the same time, I bet you’d feel differently.

So that’s not the same at all because people don’t die if school is close 2 extra days. And we all know that tons of families take those 2 days off too. If kids literally died because school buildings weren’t open for 2 days this might be a fair comparison . In any case, please feel free to sign up to sub. Even if you work full time, you could do 2-4 days a year total and it would help a lot. If you’re unwilling, accept that this is your new reality because nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to work in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

They didn’t let their entire staff take the same week off, forcing a closure. No one is saying they can’t take time off, ya dummy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

Uhhhh that’s exactly the point. The hospital gave him the week off because they had the staff to stay open. Had the hospital closed completely and kicked out all of the covid patients because all of the ICU nurses “needed” a week at the beach at the same time, I bet you’d feel differently.

So that’s not the same at all because people don’t die if school is close 2 extra days. And we all know that tons of families take those 2 days off too. If kids literally died because school buildings weren’t open for 2 days this might be a fair comparison . In any case, please feel free to sign up to sub. Even if you work full time, you could do 2-4 days a year total and it would help a lot. If you’re unwilling, accept that this is your new reality because nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to work in schools.

Have you seen kids’ test scores in math and reading? It’s an emergency situation.

Though let’s be real. APS was failing to teach kids to read well before the pandemic started.

School choice now. Defund public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

Making the argument healthcare workers don’t need, deserve, or ever take days off is … not the flex you think it is. My friend who is an ICU pulmonologist working the covid floor for a year+ took a week off this summer to go to the beach. He needed and deserved the rest and guess what - the hospital carried on.

Uhhhh that’s exactly the point. The hospital gave him the week off because they had the staff to stay open. Had the hospital closed completely and kicked out all of the covid patients because all of the ICU nurses “needed” a week at the beach at the same time, I bet you’d feel differently.

So that’s not the same at all because people don’t die if school is close 2 extra days. And we all know that tons of families take those 2 days off too. If kids literally died because school buildings weren’t open for 2 days this might be a fair comparison . In any case, please feel free to sign up to sub. Even if you work full time, you could do 2-4 days a year total and it would help a lot. If you’re unwilling, accept that this is your new reality because nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to work in schools.

Funny, because nobody, and I mean nobody, would send their child to an overcrowded APS school if they had a better option. We need charter schools and vouchers.

[Anonymous]

I’m sorry you all are house strapped because you insisted on buying in N Arl and have decided that’s the school’s fault but this is an ACPS thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably. I really don't think it's a "decompress" issue as much as it's a "can't find subs because we're paying shit wages" issue, though.

Right I agree. I really think they just need to tell teachers they can't take off though. I mean it is that way in any public facing job. You need coverage. I dont blame teachers for asking, I blame admit for granting. They need to be better/stronger managers.

Teachers will just take sick days then. They are planning ahead for what they know will happen. Good for them for giving plenty of notice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a teacher but I think teachers esp in the NOVA ACPS community and APS have it good. You signed up for a teaching job - the profession is about working with kids - whether the kids/families are easy or hard to teach - your job is to teach them. You do the best you can just like in any other job, people do as well. You get every summer off. 2 weeks over holidays. Spring Break - check. Every federal holiday off. You get teacher appreciation days. You get many times, gifts from families that really appreciate what you do. There are a lot of jobs that pay the same or lower where you do not. get. days. off. You do not. get. appreciation. at. all. You do not get the satisfaction of what you signed up to do and that is to know you were impacting the life of a kid. Whether you feel personally it's a career you want to stick with or not, to complain that teachers have it oh so bad to me is a joke. Do your job and stop complaining. I know a lot of people who are in worse career professions who would get blasted if they complain and whine as much as any NOVA teacher on this forum did.

Or quit. Oh, wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

I hate that people have pitted teachers and healthcare workers against each other over the last 2 years. The reality is that working conditions are terrible for both groups. It's a top down problem. Schools and hospitals should probably have double the staff to ensure everyone is safe and able to do their job well. Sowing discord, especially anti-union sentiment, makes it much harder for people to get employees what they need. I think there will be a ripple effect for many years with people not thinking twice about entering either profession. I know it's already happening in education.

Nope. Can’t compare the two fields. Healthcare workers (and grocery workers, sanitation workers, firefighters, etc) behaved entirely different than teachers did during the pandemic. We all took our jobs seriously while teachers stayed home.

Oh not you again. Please. You know who was back in school buildings as soon as they let us? Teachers . I was back in with kids end of January of 2021. Have been ever since. You know who is still at home? Feds.